Answers on Amelia Earhart's plane disappearance could be days away. Here's what we know.
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[0:00] Uh, we could just be hours or even days
[0:02] away from finding out if Amelia
[0:03] Heheart's missing plane has been found.
[0:06] That's right. This is a 17 member
[0:08] expedition team, Lindsay. They've been
[0:09] conducting a research on this remote
[0:11] island in the South Pacific after this
[0:13] very strange object was picked up on
[0:15] satellite radar back in 2020. Uh,
[0:17] Airheart, of course, and her navigator
[0:19] Fred Nan vanished way back in 1937. They
[0:22] were 22,000 m into the first ever
[0:26] attempt to fly around the world. CBS
[0:28] News national correspondent Lana Zach
[0:30] joins us now. She's been covering the
[0:32] story from the very beginning. And Lana
[0:33] uh give us the uh sort of geographical
[0:36] uh context of where exactly this is. Um
[0:39] because there were so many theories
[0:42] about what actually happened to Amelia
[0:44] Hart and Fred Nunan, including that they
[0:45] were captured by the Japanese and that
[0:47] you know maybe they she actually landed
[0:49] the plane and it didn't crash. What are
[0:50] you learning? So, this theory, um, a lot
[0:53] of people call it the castaway theory,
[0:55] and